Get index of select option in an optgroup with jquery

I have the following select:

<select name="end" id="end"> 
    <optgroup label="Morning"> 
        <option value="12:00a">12:00 am</option> 
        <option value="12:30a">12:30 am</option> 
        <option value="1:00a">1:00 am</option> 
        <option value="1:30a">1:30 am</option> 
    </optgroup> 
    <optgroup label="Evening"> 
        <option value="12:00p">12:00 pm</option> 
        <option value="12:30p">12:30 pm</option> 
        <option value="1:00p" selected="selected">1:00 pm</option> 
        &l开发者_如何学编程t;option value="1:30p">1:30 pm</option> 
    </optgroup> 
</select> 

I need to find the overall index of the selected option, but the optgroup is making that difficult. In other words, the selected one should return 6, but it is returning 2. I tried this:

var idx = $('#end :selected').prevAll().size();

But that returns the index within that optgroup, not the overall index. I can't change the format or values of the select options.

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Erm... whyever not good old DOM methods? For a single-select:

var idx= document.getElementById('end').selectedIndex;

// or $('#end')[0].selectedIndex if you must

Or, which will also work on multi-selects, get the option element node you're interested in and fetch option.index on it.

This is massively faster and simpler than getting jQuery to process complex selectors.

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Use the index() function to find an element within a set. Construct a set of all the options using $("#end option"). Find the selected option using the :selected pseudo-element. Note: indexes are 0-based.

var options = $("#end option");
var idx = options.index(options.filter(":selected"));

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You can also try this:

$('#end option:selected').prop('index')

This worked for me. The attr('selectedIndex') only brought up undefined with the select list.

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The same thing in jquery way is also short and simple:

var idx = $('#end').attr('selectedIndex');

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//funcion para seleccionar con jquery por el index del select 
var text = '';
var canal = ($("#name_canal").val()).split(' ');
$('#id_empresa option').each(function(i, option) {
        text = $('#id_empresa option:eq('+i+')').text();
        if(text.toLowerCase() == canal[0].toLowerCase()){
            $('#id_empresa option:eq('+i+')').attr('selected', true);
        }
    });

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var index = -1;
$('#end option').each(function(i, option) {
  if (option.selected) index = i;
});

A little ugly but I think that'd work.

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According to your problem returning all selected option's index value . you can try following code , may be help you.

code:

javascript code:

 <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.2/jquery.min.js">

       $(function(){

                $('#allcheck').click(function(){
                var chk=$('#select_option >optgroup > option:selected');
                   chk.each(function(){
                       alert('Index: ' + $('option').index(this));
                });
            });
   });});

HtML CODE:

       <select multiple="multiple" size="10" id="select_option" name="option_value[]">
         <optgroup label="Morning"> 
            <option value="12:00a">12:00 am</option> 
            <option value="12:30a">12:30 am</option> 
            <option value="1:00a">1:00 am</option> 
            <option value="1:30a">1:30 am</option> 
        </optgroup> 
        <optgroup label="Evening"> 
           <option value="12:00p">12:00 pm</option> 
           <option value="12:30p">12:30 pm</option> 
           <option value="1:00p" selected="selected">1:00 pm</option> 
           <option value="1:30p">1:30 pm</option> 
    </optgroup>  

     <strong>Select&nbsp;&nbsp;<a style="cursor:pointer;" id="allcheck">All</a>
 </strong>